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Sacheen Littlefeather made Oscar history when she turned down Marlo Brando's best-actor Oscar in 1972 over the treatment of American Indians by the film industry. Nearly 50 years later, the Academy formally apologizes to Littlefeather and welcomes her to a "healing" event next month at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Here are six of the best offerings for first-timers or seasoned cemetery crawlers working their way through Hollywood Forever — as recommended by some of the experts who know it the best.
The film screens on Aug. 8, with a Q&A immediately following with the film's director Katie Aselton.
In the years after Japanese internment, a rising generation of Japanese American youth carved musical and cultural spaces for themselves in the form of sansei dances — a dance party subculture of the mid-'60s and '70s.
Bryonn Bain is a lawyer, professor and multidisciplinary artist who uses his creative projects to call attention to justice reform. His most recent book, "Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape," features the voices of high-profile artists and activists alongside those of formerly incarcerated men and women.
The Alabama Hills is a beautiful, scenic, diverse and world-famous location, sought out by artists, filmmakers and tourists for its landscape allure. Yet over the years these hills have been used, abused and vandalized by visitors.
The film screens on July 26, with a Q&A immediately following with the film's writer/director Max Walker-Silverman, and co-stars Dale Dickey and Wes Studi.
A new art installation by artist Phung Huynh at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center recalls the tragedy over the forced sterilizations of more than 200 women from the 1960s to '70s.
As a trans artist, Muxxxe opts to be faceless as a way to create endless possibilities for who they could be instead of adhering to gender binaries.
An exhibition at the Vincent Price Art Museum investigates the significance of Latinx artists in sound art, exploring how sound, video, music and visual art through a Latinx lens intersect over the decades.
Four decades ago, "Love & Rockets" came on the comic book scene and altered the history of graphic novel publishing.
Inspired by the Filipino practice of "bayanihan," a communal practice where neighbors help neighbors relocate their homes, Santa Barbara-based DJ Javier has found ways to create community impact with his art.
In his exhibition, "Cruising Below Sunset," artist and educator Felix Quintana chooses a past moment, captured incidentally, to highlight the people of Southeast L.A. that were originally rendered insignificant.
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Award-winning photojournalist Julie Leopo finds a new reality on the shores of Oxnard, where Brown bodies like hers could exist by the water.
The film screens on July 12 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, with a Q&A immediately following with director Anthony Fabian.